RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 1 December 2004, Vol. 7, No. 48, Circulation: 816,285+ (c) 1998-2004 RootsWeb.com, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/ * * * Editor: Myra Vanderpool Gormley, Certified Genealogist Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com Certification: http://www.bcgcertification.org/certification/ Search and share family trees: WorldConnect: http://wc.rootsweb.com/ Learn how to find your ancestors: http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/ Post and read messages on all relevant surname, locality, and topic Message Boards and Mailing Lists: Message Boards: http://boards.rootsweb.com/ Mailing Lists: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ Search/download past issues of the RootsWeb Review: http://e-zine.rootsweb.com/ RootsWeb HelpDesk: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ =============================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS AND NOTES 1a. Editor's Desk: Some Sites Worth Seeing 1b. Tips from Readers: "The Joys of Inveterate Button Pushing" 1c. "Stamping Out Genealogical Errors" 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: "Finding Family Near and Far" "It's a Genealogical Candy Jar" 3. New RootsWeb Mailing Lists 4. New Webpages at RootsWeb 5. New/Updated FreePages and HomePages 6. New User-contributed Databases 7. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag: "Looking for Rough and Ready" "Reaching out via Genealogy" "Carelessly Composed Trees" "Tracing Great-grandma in India" 8. Humor/Humour: "Artificial Intelligence" 9. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints =============================================================== 1. NEWS AND NOTES 1a. EDITOR'S DESK. SOME SITES WORTH SEEING: Reading Between the Lines -- Online According to recent reports the U.S. government promises that within a few years anyone with a computer will be able to see and search millions of newspaper pages dating from 1836 to 1922. The first images should be ready by 2006. The Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities recently signed a memorandum of understanding to work cooperatively toward the goal of developing a national digital resource of select public domain U.S. newspapers http://www.loc.gov/preserv/ndnp.html * * * The British Library: Newspapers Digitisation Project of British Newspapers 1800-1900 http://www.bl.uk/collections/britishnewspapers1800to1900.html British Library Online Newspaper Archive http://www.uk.olivesoftware.com/ * * * For information about and links to many newspaper archives, see: http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson20.htm * * * Ancestry's Historical Newspaper subscription enables you to read history as it was happening in more than six million pages from more than 400 different newspapers across the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada dating from 1786 to the late 1900s. http://www.ancestry.com/landing/multisubs/products/newspaper_offer3.html * * * 1b. TIPS FROM READERS: The Joys of Inveterate Button Pushing By Ted Pack (tedpack@thevision.net) and Jerald Wyssman I love to push buttons to see what will happen. Sometimes this leads me to wonderful discoveries. Sometimes it doesn't. Several years ago four people I work with went to lunch together in one lady's car. She knew me. I pushed the "Open sunroof" button just as she was saying "Please don't push any buttons." Her husband had been meaning to fix the problem in the "Close sunroof" button for a month. My mistake and the rain that weekend just gave him an incentive. Most genealogy programs have a number of features some users haven't discovered because they don't push enough buttons. Reports, for instance. Most people will generate "Descendants of" or "Ancestors of" reports and let it go at that. However, there are other, very helpful reports hidden in your program. Your program probably has a data-checking report. In Family Origins for Windows, and its successor, Roots Magic, the report is called "Problems." If you push the right buttons, it will list all of the problems it can find in your data. (In Family Origins, click on Reports -> Lists -> Problem List.) It can't find white people born in Ohio before 1797, but it can find women who married or had children before age 15 and men who married before age 16. It lists people who were buried before they died, married after they were buried, born after they died and so forth. Most of the errors it catches are typos, like the man I had who lived to be 1,772. He was born in 1888 and died in 1960, but I had his birth year as "188." If someone lives 1780-1850, but gets typed as 1780-1750 or 1880-1850, he dies before he was born. The report lists the odd facts as "problems," not "errors." Some of my ancestors married at 14, some had children before they were married and a few were born after their father died. Whenever someone sends me a GEDCOM, I import it into its own temporary data base (file) and run the problem report on it, then send a copy to the person who sent me the GEDCOM. They are usually amazed at how wildly their fingers flew. For example, my third cousin recently sent me a GEDCOM of WYSSMAN(N) descendants. I ran the problem report. One of our cousins married in 1955 and had children born in 1957, 1959 and 1960, as average as you could be. They probably drove a Chevrolet and drank Budweiser beer. However, someone's fingers had slipped to the right and entered their marriage year as 1966 instead of 1955. There they were, according to the GEDCOM, living in Oklahoma and going to the Lutheran church with three children born out of wedlock, as brazen as Hollywood movie stars. The problem report highlighted them and we fixed the error. Your genealogy program should have a similar report, even if it isn't named "Problems." Poke around; push some buttons. Jerald Wyssman, my third cousin, adds: I use Family Tree Maker (v.9). To generate an error report in it, click on View -> Reports -> Data Errors. I find this report helpful. There are other reports to choose from, including a customized one. Why hadn't I used that feature before, you ask? The answer is that I did not find the time to study the 200-plus-page manual; I seem to go for the sure thing and I am not a "button pusher." I guess that comes from growing up on a farm around large machinery. You don't just push a button to see what happens -- it's dangerous and expensive. Ted again: Many websites have features you can discover by clicking, Take one of the most popular genealogy sites on the net, the IGI portion of the Church of the Latter-day Saints (LDS) mega-site at: http://www.familysearch.org/ A gentleman on the CADY mailing list was looking for information about Reuben CADY, born in Vermont in 1816. I found Reuben on the IGI, born 27 August 1816 in Ludlow Township, Windsor, Vermont. His father was Reuben too. The citation is for ". . . birth information from statewide indexes for Vermont . . ." Reuben is in batch 7450044. If you click on the batch number down at the bottom of the screen, you get a new, slightly different form with the batch number and region obligingly filled in. This form, unlike the main one, lets you fill in the surname and father's name alone. With Reuben I found four births: ZILLAH LEONORA CADY -- 15 JUL 1811 Ludlow Twp., Windsor, Vermont MILTON SMITH CADY -- 25 OCT 1812 Ludlow Twp., Windsor, Vermont NATHAN MACKINSTRY CADY -- 13 JUL 1814 Ludlow Twp., Windsor, Vermont REUBEN PAIN CADY -- 27 AUG 1816 Ludlow Twp., Windsor, Vermont They are all CADYs, their father is Reuben, and they were born in a pattern that suggests -- not proves -- they are siblings. If the record extraction includes the mother's maiden name, you can add it to the search arguments and be 80 percent sure you have siblings. If you try to find people with last name (surname) and parents' names alone in the main "Search" form, you get the error message, "If you enter a last name without a first name, you must not fill in any other field except a country." I found the specialized form by being curious -- and pushing buttons. * * * Have you encountered and solved a pesky research problem? Share it with the RootsWeb Review readers. Send to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com * * * 1c. Stamping out Genealogical Errors Dexter Dunmire is one of those individuals who simply cannot tolerate incorrect information. Dexter is a family history researcher and he loathes errors in his own, and anyone else's, database. When Dexter finds information he believes to be incorrect in online databases such as WorldConnect family trees at RootsWeb http://wc.rootsweb.com/ or on a webpage hosted by RootsWeb, he drops a note to the editor of the RootsWeb Review and contacts the RootsWeb HelpDesk http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/help.cgi and complains about the erroneous genealogical information that he has discovered. Unfortunately, Dexter is barking up the wrong tree. RootsWeb cannot help him. There is no army of editors and professional genealogists at RootsWeb checking and verifying genealogical data or family trees -- posted by thousands of family historians. RootsWeb hosts millions of independently authored webpages, but it does not edit or verify the information posted therein. It doesn't know if your great-grandmother was Martha Smith and whether she was born in 1780 or 1870. Moreover, there is no way to prevent incorrect genealogical material -- or information that disagrees with your findings -- from appearing on the Internet -- or in traditional sources either, such as leather-bound books at the local historical society. Errors are everywhere -- in Internet databases such as WorldConnect, in message board posts, in mailing list messages and archives, in books, in historical society records, and even in official government or church records. All of us make typographical and transcription errors and the more often data is extracted, copied, keyed and re-keyed the greater the chance of errors. There is no law prohibiting you or your cousins from submitting or posting error-riddled data online (or publishing it in a book). And, if you think your genealogy database is perfect, run a "problem" check report on it (see 1b. TIPS FROM READERS: "The Joys of Inveterate Button Pushing"). A major complaint family historians whine about is about the spelling of surnames. But there is no right or wrong way to spell a surname. See: "Why U Can't Find Your Ancestors: Misspeld Knames -- A Commun Probblem for Researchers" at http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/lesson8.htm So, how should Dexter deal with information he finds online that he believes to be incorrect or that argues with his records? The best way to counteract incorrect data is by posting or submitting his own information. Wherever someone can submit incorrect information online, Dexter can probably add the corrected data. He can include sources or evidence for his conclusions along with his data on appropriate RootsWeb/Ancestry message boards, mailing lists, and/or submit his family tree to WorldConnect. If there are only a couple of errors to be corrected or a few additions to be made to data found at RootsWeb, make those by adding a Post-em Note to the entry of interest. This feature, where available, allows you to add a virtual sticky note to an existing file. By ensuring that the correct information is readily available, at the same place that the incorrect or questionable data is found, others viewing both sets of data can make better informed decisions. Additionally, by including the sources for that data it assists other researchers to know where the information came from and which version of the "facts" are more likely to be accurate. 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Finding Family Near and Far By Chuck Swift I knew that Dad had had a son and daughter in an earlier relationship, but I had never met them. I thought that the son, with a common last name, would be easier to track than the daughter. Several years ago, a woman e-mailed me, saying she had seen my postings on RootsWeb and that she was searching for the same family, and by the way, I'm your sister! We have e-mailed and talked on the phone and Joan has visited from California. The brother? He lives an hour west, but we've not met yet. * * * It's a Genealogical Candy Jar By Bonnie Kohler in South Florida, USA I was preparing to ask a RootsWeb message-board correspondent for a lookup in the commercial directories of London, England, for my 2-great-grandfather, John BRAY, a contractor. John BRAY emigrated from London to Ottawa, Ontario, about 1871. In the death notice for Mr. BRAY in "The Ottawa Daily Citizen" in November 1872, he was mentioned as the contractor who had problems with a stone masons' strike during the construction of the Knox Church. I wasn't sure whether the Knox Church was in London or in Ottawa, so I did an online search at Google for the Knox Church. To my delight, I found a digitized copy of the "Memorial Volume of Jubilee Celebration of Fiftieth Anniversary of Knox Church, Ottawa," published in 1894, author unknown, at the "Our Roots, Canada's Local Histories Online" website at http://www.ourroots.ca/e/ Though John BRAY was not named, details of the strikes by the masons during the construction of Knox church were given in the book. I was thrilled to be able to read the actual text right from my desktop. I am flabbergasted by the ease with which I was able to access this information. * * * Do you have an online "connecting" story to share? Send to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com 3. New Mailing Lists at RootsWeb Request a New Mailing List: http://resources.rootsweb.com/adopt/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Brand-new mailing lists can be found under OTHER/MISCELLANEOUS until moved to their proper categories. For information and an index to the more than 28,600 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy Mailing Lists and for easy subscribing (joining) options go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS ATFIELD BEGNONE, BIESEMEIER BANGS-EDWARD -- Ancestors or descendants of Edward Bangs, who came to Massachusetts from England in 1623 on the "Anne" BARBEE-DNA -- Discussing BARBEE DNA projects COLMER, COUNTER, CRACKNELL CLAYTON-MS -- The CLAYTON families of Mississippi DURRER DRAKE-NETHERLANDS -- The DRAKE surname in/from The Netherlands FANYOU, FRIEDLINE, FRODSHAM FELTON-ENG -- The FELTON surname in England GAITES, GANDOLFO, GOUIN, GRANDT HARPINE, HINDERLITER, HOELTCKE KITTENDORF, KLAYH, KNOECK, KNUECK LAROCHELLE, LUNHAM MCRA OLDFATHER, OLER RICHEL SALI, SESSLER, SLEEP, SPRAYBERRY, STOYLE, SULIER, SZYNALIK TOWNSON, TREHERN USSELMAN VERMIERE WITTICH WILLIAMS-DNA -- Discussing WILLIAMS DNA projects 4. New Webpages at RootsWeb To Request a Free Web Account: http://accounts.rootsweb.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- Some of these webpages might not yet be accessible. They are created by volunteers, so if one that interests you isn't up yet, please check again in a few days or next week. http://www.rootsweb.com/~[accountname] Note that the ~[tilde] before the Web account name is required. For example, the Waterbury (Vermont) Historical Society website is at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vtwhs/ U.S.A. nerwgs -- The Rebecca Winters Genealogy Society (Nebraska) nmtorran -- Torrance County (New Mexico) pacccdar -- Col. Crawford (Pennsylvania) Chapter DAR vtwhs -- Waterbury (Vermont) Historical Society Key: DAR—Daughters of the American Revolution DRT—Daughters of the Republic of Texas USD—Daughters of the War of 1812 UDC—United Daughters of Confederacy 5. New/Updated Freepages and Homepages -------------------------------------- Has your website ever been mentioned here or do you have a new, updated, or substantially revised website located at RootsWeb (it will have "freepages" or "homepages" in the URL)? Send the URL (Web address), along with a brief description, including the major pertinent surnames and what is available on your site, to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com * * * HOWEY, MRAK. Ancestors of Robert T. Howey (mostly in southern New Jersey and Philadelphia) and the European ancestors of Carole Mrak. Surnames include: WOODLIN, EVERINGHAM, BARCALOW, WEBB, TORBERT, WELLINGTON, KENSIL, VENABLE, SHRINER, and RADFORD. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~howeypages/ MAYS. DAWE, MORGAN. Results of Judith Scott's research on her ancestors, including William DAW (1650), John DAWE, Samuel DAWE, James MORGAN, William MAYS, Barnabus LOCKERY and their descendants. Roots began in Britain, Wales, Ireland and then families removed to Newfoundland and Ontario, and eventually across Canada and United States. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~judithscott/ MICHIGAN. Tuscola County. Obituaries from local newspapers. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~caillet101/tuscola_obit_enter.html NEW YORK. This is a transcription of the "Genealogical and Family History of Northern New York." A work in progress, it is almost 70 percent completed. The (usually) New England ancestry of about 400 surnames are traced, each family name eventually finding its way to northern New York state. Whether or not your ancestors went there, the background material on these surnames is useful; contains genealogical information as well as how this family fit into the history of the New England and/or New York at the time. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hubbard/NNY_index/surnames.html STEADWELL, STEDWELL and STUDWELL: The Descendants of Thomas Studwell, who was in Greenwich (now Connecticut) by 1656, by Hal Langworthy and Marion J. Stedwell. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~hal/Studwell/ 6. New User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb ---------------------------------------------- SHARING OPPORTUNITY. Does your alma mater, old military unit, church, parish, province, county or state have material available that you think would be of interest to genealogists and historians? Do you have any compiled lists of names or databases (other than your personal genealogy) that you would like to share and that you think would be of value and interest to others? In most cases, RootsWeb would be proud to host such material. http://userdb.rootsweb.com/submit/ The following databases have come online recently. They are searchable, but not browseable. Search: To look for specific data or occurrence of text in a file. Browse: To view the entire contents of a file or a group of files. ALABAMA. Cullman County. Arkadelphia. Arkadelphia Baptist Church Cemetery; 125 records; Robin Miner http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ CONNECTICUT. New Haven County. New Haven. New Haven High School Class of 1920; 644 records; Nancy L. Lodato http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ FLORIDA. Brevard County. Cocoa. Cocoa Tribune death index, 1960-1966; 1,758 records; Jim and Bonnie Garmon http://userdb.rootsweb.com/obituaries/ GEORGIA. Clay County. Will of Esau Davis, 1854; 6 records; Winnie Gilreath Westbury http://userdb.rootsweb.com/courtrecords/ ILLINOIS. Cook County. Chicago. Death certificate of Charles B. Younger, (January 11, 1935); 1 record; J. L. Rhodes http://userdb.rootsweb.com/deaths/ INDIANA. Allen County. Fort Wayne. Journal Gazette, obituaries 2003-2004 for Miller surname; 89 records; Tannie Rothgeb Tate http://userdb.rootsweb.com/obituaries/ MONTANA. Beaverhead County. Jones Cemetery; 43 records; Lakeview Cemetery; 27 records; Argenta. Argenta Cemetery; 25 records; Dillon. Mountain View Cemetery; 5,117 records; Linda Albright on behalf of Vicki M. Miller and Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ OKLAHOMA. Tulsa County. Broken Arrow. Park Grove Cemetery; 7,633 records; Charlie Crocker http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ PENNSYLVANIA. Luzerne County. Wilkes-Barre. Men killed and injured in the Baltimore Tunnel mine disaster, June 15, 1919; 204 records; Diane Rooney, for the COALition for a coalminers' commemorative stamp http://userdb.rootsweb.com/groups/ PENNSYLVANIA. Washington County. Hickory. Hickory Academy, Classes of 1897 and 1898; 10 records; Victoria Hospodar Valentine http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ WEST VIRGINIA. Marion County. Freeland Cemetery; 37 records; John Boggess and Connie Burkett Fairmont. Boggess Cemetery; 20 records; John Boggess http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ 7. FROM ROOTSWEB REVIEW'S BOTTOMLESS MAILBAG [Editor's note: The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the editor or of RootsWeb.com]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Looking for Rough and Ready By Darlene Armstrong I enjoyed the humor of Rough and Ready, the twins of Nancy GAYLER. I was curious if they survived. Checked 1860 census through Ancestry.com and did not find them at first. Then I searched for their older brother James, since if he survived to eight years old he was more likely to survive to 18, plus keep his name. I found James GAYLER with his remarried mother Nancy JETER, her new husband A. G. JETER, James' sister Sarah GAYLER, and the 13-year-old twins, Rough and Ready, listed now with the last name of JETER. The family is listed with post office of Rondo, in Red River Township, Lafayette County, Arkansas. * * * Reaching out via Genealogy By Mary K. Haynes I've been researching my family history since 1974 and have gotten back quite a ways with several brick walls. One of them was my Benjamin CARGILL, wife Mary, possibly HAYWARD. All I really had was facts on the children but couldn't get anywhere else. Since moving to New Mexico I only can do research via the Internet. Last year when going through RootsWeb's family trees I found Benjamin with several sheets of information I didn't have. I e- mail Gayle (who'd posted the tree) with what I had and asked if she would help fill in the blanks. She e-mailed back and asked for my snail mail address and sent me a packet of what she had. Low and behold we are 6th cousins and since then have been sharing and just e-mailing each other almost every week. This year my son got married in Ft Lewis, Washington, which is just 30 minutes from where she lives and we got to meet for the first time. You do contact some that only want the information and nothing more but others become friends you feel like you have known forever. I've since on the same line met another cousin with whom we are sharing information and her youngest son and my oldest son are both serving in the military service and are now in Iraq. * * * Carelessly Composed Trees By Ken Kohlmann in Beaverton, Michigan, USA I'd like to share thoughts that have bubbled to the surface as I work on family trees listed on RootsWeb. Please check your information in your database before submitting a GEDCOM file to WorldConnect at RootsWeb. I recently was perusing several files at WorldConnect and I hate to say it, but the work of many submitters is sloppy. Below is a list of the type of mistakes I have encountered: --Individuals born in the 1500s and 1600s listed as living. Shouldn't these be in "The Guinness Record" book? --Several women giving birth in their 80s and older. Shouldn't the AMA (American Medical Association) be notified if they're Americans? --The birthplace of individuals born between 1500 and 1620 listed as Massachusetts, Connecticut, etc. Shouldn't our U.S. History books be revised? --Location of individuals born before 1776 as USA. Ditto! --Several individuals are born years before their parents. That's some feat! --Some trees have four to seven generations of names, but no dates or places. This can't be viewed as being quality work. My database has a "Reasonableness Check," which catches most, if not all, of the above errors in relationships. I always run it prior to establishing a GEDCOM file. Each of us is seen through the quality of our work. Our goal should be to provide as accurate as possible a family tree to be proud of -- not umpteen generations of imagined information. One last thought. I find several individuals who have two or more entries of the same information placed in the RootsWeb database. If you enter an updated database, you should remove the older material. If you find yourself with two identical listings you should take steps to remove one of them. [Editor's Note. It is not necessary to REMOVE a file at WorldConnect. A new (revised) GEDCOM file will overwrite the old one -- as long as you use the same user code and password. If you don't remember your user code and/or password, you can have them sent to you by e-mail from PasswordCentral: http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com/ However, the problem of duplications may be if you have uploaded trees at Ancestry. Unlike when you upload a GEDCOM to WorldConnect, uploading your file on Ancestry Online Family Tree (OFT) or Ancestry World Tree (AWT) does not replace or update an existing file. It creates an additional file. Not realizing this and thinking they are replacing outdated files, many eager-to-share genealogists have posted multiple copies of their trees. A major reason why there are so many duplicates of the same trees is due to assuming that your "new" (updated) file overrides the "old" (original) file at Ancestry. It does not. You might be surprised to discover that your "trees" have created a forest of duplications. For help on fixing this problem, see "A Time for Pruning": http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/20040211.txt] * * * Tracing Great-grandma in India By Brian Duncan http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bd5334/ I've been looking for my great-grandmother for over 20 years! I've found more than 5,000 other family members, and it's ridiculous that I can't trace someone so close. I know she died in Darjeeling, India, in 1898 (burial record in the British Library, London). That record gives her age at death as 86, which must be a transcription error, because she had her third child in 1888 -- maybe it should be "36"? Her burial record, and the baptism records (in India) of her three daughters, have only her given names (variously: Lillyan Violet, Lilyan Violet, and Lilly Violet), but not her maiden surname. I don't know when or where she married. Her children were born in 1883-1888. I guess she was born in about 1862, but I don't know where. Her husband, my great-grandfather, was a civil engineer named Richard Cherry McKENNIE (1841-1905). His records at the British Library do not mention a marriage. Any suggestions would be welcomed! [Editor's note: A guide to "British India" research by the Families in British India Society (FIBIS) can be found online at: http://www.fibis.org/guide/001-guide.htm] 8. Humor/Humour: Artificial Intelligence ------------------------------------------ Thanks to: W. Rene Woll When I first began working on a marriage line, my genealogy computer program kept bringing up a message that it was not necessary to enter my relationship to that person. The surname I was working on was OLDFATHER. * * * Found a humorous sign or entry in census, parish, church, etc. records? Send to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com 9. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints ----------------------------------------------------- SUBSCRIPTIONS. 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